#I'm posting things that will probably make me unpopular but I haven't seen it anywhere else

[stephsageek]

[fairytalesandfandoms]

to elaborate on my tags on the previous post (under a read more for... well, horror movies and tropes therein)

Funnily, I've been into classic gothic literature for a long time, but I never really pigeonholed it as 'horror'. Mind you, at the time I didn't know much about the genre.

I can watch (some) horror movies with a more stereotypical 'Gothic' aesthetic such as Crimson Peak or The Others (which I know is a bit too late to be gothic but it has the whole 'spooky house in the fog' setting).

My friends at uni used to have horror movie marathons. When we watched some older ones like Psycho and The Exorcist, it was easier to laugh at the old special effects and, of course, the Psycho theme music. So generally, I'm OK with older ones, because the effects or the filming etc makes it easier to be like 'it's just some people pretending'

I don't usually mind the horror comedies I've seen.

I haven't really been interested in slasher films. Not sure why.

Zombie movies... aren't usually my favourites? I didn't like REC, and could take or leave 28 Days Later. The more comedy-ish ones like Shaun of the Dead and Zombieland were alright.

Potentially unpopular opinion: Midsommar was one where.... I understand that a lot of people appreciate it, and it definitely isn't the worst I've seen, but I can't say I enjoyed it or that I'm planning on watching it again.

Jump scares are something I'd rather not have but I know they're in a lot of horror movies so I won't begrudge like... one per film.

I did not enjoy Silent Hill, which was the first real horror movie I saw, with no knowledge of the game(s?) whatsoever.

I do not tend to do well with body-horror-esque injuries. Like the bits with the possessions in the latest season of Stranger Things, which freaked me out so much.

Similarly, torture scenes of any kind. I had two goes at finishing Pan's Labyrinth because the first time I had to stop when the soldiers were torturing that guy. I am not going anywhere near the Saw movies.

There are a lot of genres and subgenres I haven't seen as well, so if I've missed something obvious it's probably because I've either a) forgotten or b) not seen it.

[lexa-griffins]

I wish they had two options. I prefer binging shows. I forget a lot of things when I have to watch on a weekly basis. And shows who release weekly tend to take longer hiatus in the middle too. There’s less continuity. Show’s that release weekly also tend to try and make more episodes. So instead of the 10 episode formula there’s 20-25 episodes and to me that’s too long. Again, there’s more room for continuity errors.

To me, it’s more enjoyable when I can binge a 10-15 ep show in my own time. But I know that’s an unpopular opinion to have. So I wish there were two options. To binge or to not binge. I can always blacklist a tag until I’m able to watch the show. But I can’t keep up when I’ve gotta watch one episode and wait possibly one to four weeks later (depending on if there’s a hiatus or not) until I can see the next episode.

You technically have the two options. If I wanted to watch one episode a week or you want to wait until a season or a show is over to watch it all in one go, that's possible. But it's still not the same^tm for me.

I love the community in fandoms that's built around the collective watching of one episode and the excitement for the next one. I love finishing an episode and the next day waking up and rewatching specific scenes on youtube or if the episode is available already to go an re-watch it. Seeing the same scene re-gifted over and over again because everyone is so excited about it. To me continuity errors are like... minimal detail? Unless it's something obviously big and that affects the narrative and especially if the show has been running for some time, it's almost inevitable unless the show runners are really careful with those.

To give the an example with first kill - I was really excited to watch it. And then it came out - i had no idea it would come out that day - i already knew the beginning, middle and end of it by the end of the day and it wasn't long before we learned it was canceled. And I still haven't watched it because of that and while I still want to im in no rush at this point and by the time I do the fandom will probably be almost dead.

Everyone has different preferences when it comes to this but as someone who cannot keep up to date with things for the life of me, i end up not watching a lot of stuff because everything is consumed, talked about and forgotten in the span of few weeks to a month. I'm in the rwby fandom and we've been on a hiatus of the series going on 2 years now and i still go back to watch episodes and there's always content being made for it. I love the weekly liveblogs and the incoherent posts after every episode it, makes the fandom feel so alive and interactive to me, since fandom and the community around a show is a big reason of why I enjoy watching stuff. I wasn't raised on american shows and weekly updates really, I was raised with portuguese and brazillian telenovelas with daily episodes on week days where you'd go to school and talk about it and if you missed an episode you couldn't watch it anywhere (not until maybe a year later when it would repeat in the afternoon instead of after dinner) so you had to listen to it being re-told to you by the ones who watched it so you could watch the next one. I can barely discuss a show even in person because one friend hasn't seen it, another one is saving it for later, another one has finished and I might be taking it slow.

If I watch 10 episodes in one day then sure, I won't forget what happens from one episode to another but in a month's time I won't remember the show at all!